Florbela Espanca

Portugal
8 Dec 1894 // 8 Dec 1930
Poet

The only way in life for being happy, especially for human beings like you, of a great sensitivity, an extraordinary imagination, the only way is to build up a very sweet home, and full of light, where, away from the world, one can love, one can work, one can live.

Correspondence (1920)

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